Chaim Rosenberg reads from "The Knitters of Needham."

Knitters! Join us at the Needham Public Library to hear Chaim Rosenberg share historical stories about knitting in Needham. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Wellesley Books. 

In the 19th century, knitters from the Midlands of England, made poor by the increasing flow of work into factories, brought their craft to America. Many of them settled in Highlandville, a village of Needham. Working out of their homes, they knitted socks, mittens, gloves, underwear, and jackets, using hand and foot operated frame machines they brought from England.

Chaim M. Rosenberg has long studied the Massachusetts industrial age and is the author of The Great Workshop: Boston’s Victorian Age and several other works. The images in Knitters of Needham come from the author’s private collection as well as from the archives of the Needham Historical Society and the Needham Free Public Library. Books will be available for purchase and autographing courtesy of Wellesley Books.